Perhaps you've heard of the inverted pyramid. This elderly news-story construction, which puts the most boring/trivial details at the bottom, is a relic of newspaper writing that needed to be cut ...

The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

As legend tells it, the NHL added the trapezoid behind goalie nets because Martin Brodeur was just too good at handling the puck behind his net. The idea: limit the space goalies have to work with and ...